Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris |
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. planifolius |
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Inyo rabbitbrush, sticky leaf rabbitbrush, yellow rabbitbrush |
yellow rabbitbrush |
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Habit | Plants 10–50 cm. | Plants 10–25 cm. |
Stems | glabrous. |
glabrous (puberulous). |
Leaf | blades green, 1-nerved, filiform, terete, 10–30 × 0.5–1 mm, not twisted, margins obscurely involute, not noticeably ciliate, apices acicular, faces hairy. |
blades ascending to spreading, green, 1-nerved, narrowly lanceolate, (10–)14–20 × 1–2 mm, flat, not twisted, margins obscurely involute, entire, not noticeably ciliate, apices cuspidate, faces glabrous. |
Involucres | ± turbinate to obconic, 5–6 mm. |
cylindric to campanulate, (4–)5–5.6 mm. |
Disc florets | 3–5; corollas 3.5–5 mm, lobes 1–1.2 mm. |
3–4(–5); corollas 3.5–4.5 mm, lobes 1.4–1.7 mm. |
Phyllaries | 14–24 in 4–5 series, in 4–5 weak vertical ranks, (spreading at maturity) green to brown subapical patch, midnerves glandular-thickened distally, convex or weakly keeled, broadly linear to linear-oblong, unequal, margins scarious, eciliate or distally erose-ciliolate, apices sharply acute or apiculate, flat, faces glabrous. |
14–18 in 3–4 series, in spirals or weak vertical ranks, stramineous, green to brown subapical patches obscure midnerves evident distally or obscure, ± convex or weakly keeled, obovate to oblong or spatulate, unequal, margins scarious, eciliate or distally obscurely ciliolate, faces glabrous. |
Heads | in rounded cymiform arrays. |
in broad, rounded, corymbiform arrays. |
2n | = 18. |
= 18. |
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. axillaris |
Chrysothamnus viscidiflorus subsp. planifolius |
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Phenology | Flowering summer–fall. | Flowering late summer–fall. |
Habitat | Desert slopes in granitic sand | Dry sandy soils, sparse juniper slopes |
Elevation | 1300–2000 m (4300–6600 ft) | 1600+ m (5200+ ft) |
Distribution |
AZ; CA; CO; NV; UT |
AZ |
Source | FNA vol. 20, p. 192. | FNA vol. 20, p. 192. |
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Synonyms | C. axillaris | |
Name authority | (D. D. Keck) L. C. Anderson: Great Basin Naturalist 40: 118. (1980) | L. C. Anderson: Madroño 17: 223, fig. 2c. (1964) |
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